I think this will be debateable since according to BSD history, UC Berkeley added innovations that became common (should we say standard?) features of Unix like service daemons, TCP/IP networking stack, and multi-(user, tasking, processing, programming) as per DARPA grant.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Orlando Andico <[email protected]>wrote: > Another important point is that a lot of innovation on UNIX came out > of Bell Labs -- but Bell Labs "shared" their innovations not out of > altruism, but because the anti-trust settlement between AT&T and the > US government forbade AT&T from selling any computers or software, so > Bell Labs "gave away" the source code. > > AT&T was an even larger monopoly than Microsoft today (or Google) but > it was this entrenched monopoly which funded the R&D which eventually > led to where we are today. > > > > -- > Orlando Andico > +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Tito Mari Francis H. Escaño Computer Engineer and Free Software Proponent
_________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
